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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by EKAR.

Totals

Total revenue
$715,369
Total expenses
$535,273
Contributions and grants received
$713,607
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$1,762
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$624,364
Total liabilities, end of year
$58
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$624,306
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$345,471
Management and general expenses
$106,624
Fundraising expenses
$83,178
Program service expenses (Part III)
$345,471

Program services were 64.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $713,607

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $1,762 · related or exempt $1,762

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $94,916 · program services $37,966 · management and general $56,950

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $180,793 · program services $126,943 · management and general $3,850 · fundraising $50,000

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $12,908 · program services $12,908

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $23,850 · program services $16,922 · management and general $6,928

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $5,203 · management and general $5,203

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $754 · management and general $754

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,981 · management and general $2,981

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $15,005 · management and general $15,005

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $2,414 · management and general $2,414

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $7,896 · management and general $7,896

  • 17 · Travel

    total $39 · management and general $39

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $15,171 · program services $15,171

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $7,457 · management and general $7,457

  • 24a · Other expenses: SHALOM PARK MOVE

    total $52,646 · program services $52,646

  • 24b · Other expenses: FARM OPERATIONS

    total $37,036 · program services $37,036

  • 24c · Other expenses: FUNDRAISING EXPENSES

    total $33,178 · fundraising $33,178

  • 24d · Other expenses: HFDK EXPENSES

    total $18,666 · program services $18,666

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $24,360 · program services $27,213 · management and general -$2,853

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $325,729 · end of year $444,347

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $106,547 · end of year $92,594

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $115,088

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $27,665

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $11,991 · end of year $87,423

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $57 · end of year $58

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $444,210 · end of year $624,306

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

BUILD COMMUNITY, PROVIDE EXPERIENTIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND GROW SUSTAINABLE PRODUCED FRUITS AND VEGETABLES EXPANDING ACROSS THOSE IN NEED.

  • FARM OPERATIONS ON .50 ACRES OF A 2 ACRE FARM PRODUCING APPROXIMATELY 17,160 POUNDS OF PRODUCE, WHICH WAS DONATED TO METRO CARING, SPIRIT OF THE SUN, WOMEN INFANT AND CHILDREN PROGRAM, MONARCH MONTESSORI SCHOOL, HOPE COMMUNITIES, ACADEMY 360, AND VIVENT HEALTH. APPROXIMATELY 682 VOLUNTEERS WITH 1,375 HOURS PARTICIPATED IN FARMING ACTIVITIES.

    Expenses $279,111

  • YOUTH AND FAMILY FOOD SYSTEMS. FOOD CULTIVATION AND PREPARATION, AND FOOD SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABLY EXPERIMENTIAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND ADULTS, INCLUDING PROGRAMMING WITH SCHOOLS. APPROXIMATELY 92 CLASSES AND 19 EVENTS WITH OVER 26,919 PARTICIPANTS. EKAR DISTRIBUTED 15,000 SEED PACKETS TO 157 ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT COLORADO AND DISTRIBUTED 1640 MEAL KITS TO LOW INCOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS

    Expenses $66,360

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jason Plotkin

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $94,916
    From this org
    $94,916
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • Brad Cohen

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sarah Cohen

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anyssa Juarez

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Jen Posner

    BAORD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Marian Pulford

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Iian Salzberg

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Paul Sherman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sara Rose Tannenbaum

    BOARD CO CHA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ashleigh Wheeler

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Rebecca Grant Zarret

    BOARD CO CHA

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2025
Filed
4 May 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.0
Source object
202621269349300122

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